Category: Employee Experience

Yorkshire Firm The Car People to Create 175 Jobs with £13m Warrington Showroom

Vehicle supermarket The Car People is creating 175 jobs with a new multi-million-pound showroom in the North West. The Wakefield-headquartered firm invested £13m in the centre, which comprises 42,000 sq ft across a 13-acre site in Warrington. The Car People said the...

U.K. Pay Falls Despite Lowest Unemployment Since 1975

Pay adjusted for inflation drops 0.5% between March and May Unemployment falls to 4.5% as economy creates 175,000 jobs British consumers are continuing to see their spending power eroded by feeble wage increases and the rising cost of living, despite unemployment falling...

Employees, HR Directors and Business Leaders to Benefit from ‘Disruptive Listening’

ENGAGE recommits to Confirmit Horizons to put data-driven advice at the heart of employee engagement strategies. Growing demand from business leaders and employees for a move away from once-a-year, one-way “listening” is at the heart of a new, integrated approach to employee...

Deliveroo Will Pay Its 15,000 UK Riders Sickness And Injury Benefits If The Laws Change

Food delivery startup Deliveroo has pledged to pay sickness and injury benefits to its UK riders, provided the government changes the law around what they can offer flexible workers. In a submission to a government-commissioned review of the gig economy, Deliveroo...

Microsoft to Cut ‘Thousands’ of Jobs

Microsoft is to cut “thousands” of jobs worldwide as it attempts to beef up its presence in the cloud computing sector. The technology giant wants to strengthen its cloud computing division but is facing intense competition from rivals such as Amazon...

Designing a Home Office that Inspires Productivity

Working from home can pose various challenges and create a number of diverse distractions, even for the most dedicated and focused individuals. This is why it’s important to ensure your home office is designed to inspire and sustain productivity, rather...

From Chatbots to Treasure Hunts, Agencies Get Creative in Recruiting New Workers

It’s never been harder for agencies to recruit needed talent, up against often higher paying options at tech giants. Here’s how five agencies are deviating from the well-trodden path of intern schemes and headhunters to ensure their clients represent the...

Free Beer, Massages And Ski Trips – These Are the Best Job Perks in Greater Manchester

Does your work have a free bar and give you free ski trips? If not, you’re in the wrong job. What if going to work was more than just doing your 9-5? Imagine if on top of your usual salary you...

Hard Work

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King We’ve heard it since childhood.  We’ve heard it from parents, teachers, and friends…“You just have to stick to...

What Does Having an ‘80% Engaged Workforce’ Even Mean?

The declaration of the percentage of ‘engaged employees’ an organisation has, has always seemed like a fairly abstract concept. What does it mean? How are behaviours and emotions measured as a percentage? I can’t say I’ve ever defined how I...